Mark Emmert a step ahead of scandal

NCAA president has a habit of leaving town before the storm

11:06 PM,
Apr. 2, 2013

Written by

Brent Schrotenboer
USA Today

Six years after Mark Emmert left his job at the University of Connecticut, the governor of Connecticut ordered an investigation into a massive construction project on campus that had been ravaged by scandal, including more than $100 million lost because of mismanagement.

To find out where things went wrong, the investigators looked at old papers of Emmert, who once supervised the project as UConn's chancellor. They soon found a bombshell.

Memos from 1998-99 showed that Emmert and two other top UConn officials knew about the construction project's big problems then but failed to disclose ...